Post 2: A Meaningful Life

Post 2: A Meaningful Life

Assigned: Wednesday, May 10th
Response due: Monday, May 15th
2 comments due: Wednesday, May 17th

* Your response should be a minimum of ten sentences.  Use proper grammar, spelling, etc. and organization (topic and concluding sentences, transitions).

Tuesdays with Morrie communicates what Morrie Schwartz believed to be the key to living a meaningful life.  He told Mitch, "So many people walk around with a meaningless life.  They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important.  This is because they're chasing the wrong things.  The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning" (Albom 43).

What is the key(s) to a meaningful life for you?  If you were to look back on your life at the end of your life, how would you have spent your time?  What would you have focused on?  What beliefs or values would have influenced you? What goals would you have pursued and achieved?

* In your post, INCLUDE YOUR LIFE'S SENTENCE written in class on Wednesday, May 10th.  

Post 1: Morrie's Wisdom

Post 1: Morrie's Wisdom 

Assigned: Friday, May 5th
Response due: Monday, May 8th
2 comments due: Wednesday, May 9th

* Include direct textual evidence from Tuesdays with Morrie in your post.  Evidence must be introduced with context and cited correctly.

* Your response should be a minimum of ten sentences.  Use proper grammar, spelling, etc. and organization (topic and concluding sentences, transitions).

Topic: Morrie, as a professor of sociology and later a man dying of a terminal illness, often reflected on the meaning of life.  One of Mitch Albom's main purposes in writing Tuesdays with Morrie was to share Morrie's wisdom with a wide audience.  At this point in the book, consider Morrie's insights and wisdom you have read.  For example, Morrie tells Mitch, "Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves.  We're teaching the wrong things.  And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.  Create your own" (Albom 35).  What piece of Morrie's wisdom or his outlook on life has made the strongest impression on you?  Why?  How does this wisdom/outlook relate to your own life?